at home by rendering the place as much like a black's camp as possible.

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It will no doubt be argued that it is

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impossible to keep these people clean,

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but I venture to think that New

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Norcia experience proves the contrary. In any case it is the duty of the

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Government to endeavor to teach these

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savages some of the principles of civilisation, and not to leave them in a condition of barbarism, which is the more revolting for being harbored

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within four walls. The state of the

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prisoners themselves was quite in

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accordance with their environments.

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A DIRTIER FROWSIER LOT

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it would be hard to find in any nigger's

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camp in the country. Their costume consists of a shirt and a pair of trousers, both filthy to the last degree. Why these garments cannot be washed, even occasionally - say once a month - I cannot understand. The hair and

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beards of the men were matted and full

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of dirt--in short, the general condition

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of the black convict is just a shade

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more repulsive and appalling than that

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of the ordinary semi-domesticated bar-

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barian, who loafs around our towns

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and wolfs a living out of the dustbins.

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of his white dispossessors. As for the

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men themselves, apart from their

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clothing and appearance, it is only

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doing them justice to' say that they

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are a remarkable lot. One man was

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pointed out to our party who had

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COMMITTED FIVE MURDERS

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On the whole he was proud of the

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attention he excited, and no doubt was

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quite a great gun amongst these sable

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criminals. Several of the others were

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murderers, and altogether there is a

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fine rich flavor of diabolical crime

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about the crowd, which, together with

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their rags and filth, showed how

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thoroughly contact with Christianity

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civilises the blacks. We were next

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taken to see the hospital, which stands

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on a small hill a few yards away from

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the octagonal hell before described.

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This "hospital" consists of a brick

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building containing only one room, and

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at the time of my visit one patient.

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The same dirty yellow tint, giving evi-

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dence of limewash having been used at

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some remote period of the past, per-

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vaded the interior of the walls, and

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was further embellished with dark

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stains of some liquid, which might be

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anything, but which was suggestive of

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something unnameable. There were

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two bunks in this pen, on one of which

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lay an old mattress, which had evi-

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dently seen better days, and was now

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wearing out its existence in a state of

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decrepitude which caused its straw

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interior to gape out and lend spots of

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yellow color to vary the monotony Of

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its

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TINT OF DIRTY DRAB

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Whether the thing had. ever been

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washed was more than doubtful ; in

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any case it looked to me so thoroughly

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soiled that I doubt if even a self

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respecting microbe would stay in it.

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However, microbes have no self-respect

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to speak of, and I doubt not that this

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object contained a large and flourishing

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population. On the other bunk and

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on another mattress, twin brother of

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the senile piece of upholstery mentioned,

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lay Cockroach,

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A NOTORIOUS BLACK MURDERER

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whose specialty in the gentle art of

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killing lies in twisting the heads of

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black gins round till they either look

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one way and walk another, or die of

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the experiment. This amiable creature

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was lying fully clothed in shirt and

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trousers and the usual coat of dirt,

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wrapped in brown blankets which

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looked as disreputable as the walls and

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mattresses. Around his neck was a

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handkerchief which had once been

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white, but which had caught the re-

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flection of Cockroach's complexion and

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was fast becoming as black as ebony.

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This also may possibly have seen the

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washtub, although. there was abso-

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lutely no evidence Of the fact. The

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floor of this delectable abode for the

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sick was covered with dust and rub-

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bish, and taken by and large the build-

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ing is one in which I should not care

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to lodge a dog, especially if I after-

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wards intended to permit the dog to

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enter into human companionship.

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Cockroach was suffering from some

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disease of the feet, and Dr. Hope

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ordered some carbolic acid for them. I

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thought the room needed the carbolic

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even more than the nigger. As for

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the stench, coming either from the

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room or the blac, or both, it was simply

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UNBEARABLY NAUSEATING

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After this inspection we were more

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than amply satisfied that the aboriginal

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prison at Rottnest was a perfect model

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of all that such an establishment

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should not be. , I noticed everywhere

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a most plentiful lack of whitewash ex-

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cept on the exterior walls. Interiors

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as a rule were tinted

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A LEPROUS YELLOW

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deepening into browns and rich red,

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where liquids had been thrown or pro-

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jected against them. Most of the

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ceilings were absolutely black with smoke and the floors beneath grey with the dust of months. To get some faint idea of what the place looks like, let the reader go into an old country house which has been inhabited

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exclusively by goats for about three

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years, and he will have an

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experience in some respects approaching

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to ours. There was no appearance or

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odor of disinfectants in any part of the buildings and the smell of chloride of